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Anca means: Grace; Favor
Afina means: Young
Adriana means: Dark and Rich; Woman from Hadria
Andreea means: Strongly; Brave; Manly
Aurelia means: Golden; Wind; Dawn; Breeze
Adrianna means: Dark; Woman from Hadria; Dark One; From Adria the Adriatic Sea Region
Anamarie means: Grace; Bitter; Compound Name Combining Ann and Mary; Favor; Similar to Anna
Atanasia means: One who will be Reborn
Antoaneta means: Priceless
Cami means: Virginal; Unblemished; Servant for the Temple
Zone is Surname or Lastname and has origin as Dutch. Zone means: Dutch : from zoon 'son', a distinguishing epithet for a son who shared the same personal name as his father.English (southwestern) : variant of Son.
Zane is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Zane means: English : unexplained.Italian (Venice and Mantua) and Greek (Zanes) : from a variant of the Venetian personal name Z(u)an(n)i 'John' (see Zani).Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Zahn.Robert Zane was a cloth maker of English origin, a founding member of the Quaker colony that was set up at Salem, NJ, in 1676.
Zachry is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Zachry means: English : variant of Zachary.
Zachery is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Zachery means: English : variant of Zachary.
Zachary is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English and Jewish. Zachary means: English and Jewish : from a vernacular form of the Biblical personal name Zacharias.
Youngs is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Youngs means: English : patronymic from Young.
Youngman is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Youngman means: English : from Middle English yunge man 'young servant'.
Younger is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English (mainly Borders). Younger means: English (mainly Borders) : from Middle English yonger 'younger', hence a distinguishing name for, for example, the younger of two bearers of the same personal name. In one case, at least, however, the name is known to have been borne by an immigrant Fleming, and was probably an Americanized form of Middle Dutch jongheer 'young nobleman' (see Jonker).Americanized spelling of various cognate or like-sounding names in other languages, notably German Junger and Junker, or Dutch Jonker.
Young is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English, Scottish, and northern Irish. Young means: English, Scottish, and northern Irish : distinguishing name (Middle English yunge, yonge 'young'), for the younger of two bearers of the same personal name, usually distinguishing a younger brother or a son. In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge.Americanization of a cognate, equivalent, or like-sounding surname in some other language, notably German Jung and Junk, Dutch De Jong, De Jongh and Jong, and French Lejeune and LaJeunesse.assimilated form of French Dion or Guyon.Chinese : see Yang.
Youmans is Surname or Lastname and has origin as English. Youmans means: English : variant of Yeomans.
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Qatar Airways proudly supports a wide range of sporting activities and initiatives around the world, expanding our brand visibility and establishing lasting and loyal relationships with our customers.
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- If the proposal conforms with our requirements it will be submitted to other internal stakeholders;
- After careful review and evaluation of the proposal, a decision will be made and the requesting company will be informed accordingly;
- If any additional information is required, we shall contact the requesting company;
- The requesting company will be contacted within four to six weeks of submitting the proposal, only if the sponsorship proposal is approved.
Due to the high level of interest in Qatar Airways sponsorships, we can only support a limited number of requests. As a result, we sometimes decline opportunities even if they fit our sponsorship guidelines.
Qatar Airways will not consider association with, or sponsorship of, activities related to politics, religious affairs, extreme sports (i.e. wrestling and boxing), unfair competition, explicit content or images, negative behaviour, or any event or activity taking place less than 12 weeks from the time the proposal is submitted.
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Dear Editor:
2012 has not been a banner year for the meat industry.
Extreme drought has doubled the cost of animal feedstuffs. Undercover investigations documented male chicks suffocated in plastic garbage bags or ground to death, their female counterparts crammed for life in tiny wire-mesh cages, pigs clobbered with metal pipes, and assorted farm animals skinned and dismembered at the slaughterhouse while still conscious.
A study of more than 120,000 people by the Harvard School of Public Health confirmed once again that meat consumption raises the risk of cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Director General of the World Health Organization Margaret Chan, warned that routine use of antibiotics to promote animal growth in factory farms is causing "the end of modern medicine."
No wonder U.S. per capita meat consumption has been dropping by nearly 4 percent annually!
October offers excellent opportunities for dropping animal products from our diet. The month kicked off with World Vegetarian Day and World Farm Animals Day on October 1st and 2nd, respectively. It continues with World Food Day on October 16th, and Food Day on October 24th.
Entering "live vegan" in a search engine brings lots of useful transition tips.
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The most recent issue of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is now live at http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu. Included in this issue is a project by Roger Whitson documenting his experience using process-oriented publishing to teach the expansion of middle-class reading and printing in the nineteenth century alongside the discourse of digital media today.
From the intro:
What classroom roles do journal editors have in the digital age? Roger Whitson invited JITP editors Amanda Licastro and Kimon Keramidas into his class on "The Nineteenth-Century Novel" to explore how editors can supplement traditional classroom instruction and investigate the purpose of design and digital publishing in literary period courses. The course involved a history of reading and book-design in the nineteenth century, along with assignments that encouraged students to experience reading and writing in different modalities. Over the course of twenty months this project has resulted in a wide variety of content, both formal and informal. To display that process and those materials, the authors have designed this project in the form of the interactive timeline below, which gives the scope of the project as a whole. Included in the timeline are date markers of specific milestones and events that took place during the process but don't link to any specific product, links to documents and multimedia elements created in the evolution of that process, and links to the final formal articles published in the journal.
The full article is available here: http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/digital-literary-pedagogy-an-experiment-...
Thanks to Leila Walker for posting this on the NASSR listserv, from which this post is taken.


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Brockton-born novelist John Stover dies at 62
John Stover, a Brockton-born author of six published novels, died last Saturday at his home in Los Angeles, said his daughter Kaitlyn Stover. He would have been 63 on June 1.
Stover came back to Easton last July to read and sign books at Oak Ames Memorial Hall. He often wrote about his own life and presented his newest novel, "Love Rescue me/Love in a Mission."
The novel is based on the character Jack St. Clair and tracks him for 40 years. During that time St. Clair works in the fashion industry, becomes an AIDS activist, and lives in a Los Angeles mission. The tale is based on Stover's own life. He also recovered in a mission after an accident broke his neck.
Stover died of natural causes. He is survived by his daughter Kaitlyn Stover and five siblings: Janet Sylvester of Lakeville, James Stover of Brockton, Joyce Wallace of Plymouth, Jill Pond of Riverside, RI and Jeanne Sweet of Portland, ME. Services will be held at Oakes Ames Memorial Hall in Easton on Saturday, May 17th at 4 p.m.


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SANTA CLARA — Like the 49 other athletic girls who filled the 49ers Clubhouse cafeteria Friday, Allie Swartz loves sports. But the 17-year-old Irvington High School senior, who swims and plays water polo and soccer, has spent hours sidelined by a series of injuries, most recently a broken hip.
So the Fremont student said she was delighted four years ago, when she first attended the 49ers T.H.I.N.K. Gold! Conference, to meet 49ers head trainer Jeff Ferguson, who taught the girls the importance of proper training and injury recovery. He later agreed to mentor Allie, who joined "Fergie" on the job for a day.
"This program is what really helped me discover what I want to do," Allie said Friday as she attended the leadership conference, organized by the 49ers Foundation and the Bay Area Women's Sports Initiative (BAWSI), for the fourth time.
The T.H.I.N.K. Gold! Conference — the acronym stands for Training, Health, Inspiration, Nutrition and Knowledge — is an annual event that selects 50 top female athletes from the Bay Area to spend the day in Santa Clara, where they work with the 49ers staff and meet other athletes including former Olympians. Athletic directors at their schools nominate the girls, who represent sports ranging from lacrosse and soccer to track and fencing.
On Friday around noon, the girls, most sporting ponytails and gray T.H.I.N.K. Gold! Shirts, vied to win raffle prizes, such as soccer balls, during a keynote speech by Tina Syer of the Positive Coaching Alliance, while beefy, tattooed football players came inside to grab lunch.
Syer, a former Stanford field hockey player who now works with the Mountain View-based PCA, stressed the importance of bouncing back from mistakes and embracing good sportsmanship, such as shaking hands with officials, even if they had made a few bad calls.
Earlier, they practiced working as a team and communication while building marshmallow and raw spaghetti towers. Joanne Pasternack, 49ers community relations director, said that exercise aims to teach resilience and how to lose gracefully.
The girls also practiced football drills with 49ers Youth Football Manager Jared Muela.
Elisa Cooney, a junior at Bay High School in San Francisco who plans to continue playing soccer in college, said she learned the importance of reaching out to her teammates and supporting others during a game.
"You have to make sure you are pushing your team forward and shake off mistakes," Elisa said.
Pasternack said she strives to recruit girls from both rich and poor school districts and to ensure the girls spend most of the day with athletes they didn't know before.
Now in its sixth year, the conference began as an expansion of a 49ers community activities program for boys, Pasternack said. As a former athlete and mother of a young girl, she said she felt the girls would also benefit from a program stressing health, persistence and leadership. After working with leaders from BAWSI, the sports initiative started by soccer phenom Brandi Chastain, the 49ers launched the conference.
Pasternack said the girls keep in touch after the conference through a closed Facebook group and are encouraged to take their skills back to their teams and their schools.
"In high school sports, it's hard to think of where to take it," Elisa said. "It's good to see that there are opportunities."
Contact Becky Bach at 408-920-5862. Follow Becky Bach at Twitter.com/troutbach.


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Deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed Thursday, with interim Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril saying Gadhafi was shot in crossfire between transitional government troops who captured him and the ex-ruler's loyalists.
Gadhafi's death happened apparently after he survived a NATO airstrike on a convoy in the area, a senior NATO official told CNN.
A different source - a spokesman for a member of the Tripoli military council - says that one of Gadhafi's sons, Mutassim, and Moammar Gadhafi's chief of intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, also have been killed.
Early reports on how Moammar Gadhafi died were conflicting; Jibril gave his government's account late Thursday. A video aired by Al Jazeera Arabic shows someone who appears to be Gadhafi wounded - but still alive - and surrounded by fighters. A different, grisly video that aired on Al Jazeera appears to show a lifeless Gadhafi (see above). A photograph distributed by the news agency Agence France-Presse also appeared to show the longtime dictator severely wounded. CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the images.
In another major development, revolutionary fighters said they wrested control of Sirte on Thursday. And NATO said it is going to convene soon for a meeting to discuss ending its operation in Libya, a source told CNN.
Moammar Gadhafi, 69, was in power for 42 years before being ousted in an uprising this year.
[Update 6:16 p.m. ET] An already-injured Moammar Gadhafi was killed in a crossfire Thursday between transitional government troops and the ex-ruler's loyalists shortly after he was captured alive, National Transitional Council Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said late Thursday.
Citing the coroner's office in Misrata, where Gadhafi's body was brought, Jibril said the fugitive former strongman had been taken alive, unharmed and without resistance in his hometown of Sirte. But a gun battle erupted between NTC fighters and Gadhafi's supporters as his captors attempted to load him into a vehicle, Jibril said, leaving Gadhafi with a wound to his right arm.
More shooting erupted as the vehicle drove away, and Gadhafi was shot in the head, Jibril told reporters. Gadhafi died moments before arriving at a hospital, he said.
Jibril said that before the run to the hospital, Gadhafi was found hiding in a sewage pipe, according to Reuters.
Earlier, a senior NATO official said Gadhafi is believed to have been killed at the hands of fighters outside of his hometown of Sirte, Libya, after surviving a NATO airstrike on a convoy in the area.
The British Broadcasting Corp. says it has talked to anti-Gadhafi forces who say they found Gadhafi hiding in a drainage pipe under a road on the outskirts of Sirte, though they were arguing over which person captured him. They also showed off a golden gun that they said was taken from Gadhafi.
[Update 4:06 p.m. ET] Moammar Gadhafi is believed to have survived a combined strike Thursday on his convoy near Sirte before dying later at the hands of fighters outside the coastal city, a senior NATO official told CNN.
An official with the U.S. Department of Defense told CNN that French fighter jets and a Predator drone, firing a Hellfire missile, struck the convoy Thursday morning. That official, however, was unable to say if Gadhafi was part of the targeted convoy.
[Update 2:59 p.m. ET] NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced on Thursday - hours after Moammar Gadhafi was killed - that the alliance eventually "will terminate our mission" in that North African nation.
"We will terminate our mission in coordination with the United Nations and the National Transitional Council. With the reported fall of Bani Walid and Sirte, that moment has now moved much closer," Rasmussen said.
[Update 2:37 p.m. ET] Here is a large portion of U.S. President Barack Obama's statement on Gadhafi's death:
"Today, the government of Libya announced the death of Moammar Gadhafi. This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of Libya, who now have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and a new and democratic Libya. For four decades, the Gadhafi regime ruled the Libyan people with an iron fist. Basic human rights were denied, innocent civilians were detained, beaten and killed, Libya's wealth was squandered. The enormous potential of the Libyan people was held back, and terror was used as a political weapon. Today we can definitively say that the Gadhafi regime has come to an end. The last major regime strongholds have fallen. A new government is consolidating control over the country. One of the world's longest serving dictators is no more.
"One year ago, the notion of a free Libya seemed impossible, but then the Libyan people rose up and demanded their rights. And when Gadhafi and his forces started going city to city, town by town to brutalize men, women and children, the world refused to stand idly by. Faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the Libyan people, the United States and our friends and allies, stopped Gadhafi's forces in their tracks. A coalition that included the United States, NATO and Arab nations persevered through the summer to protect Libyan civilians. Meanwhile, the courageous Libyan people fought for their own future and broke the back of the regime.
"This is a momentous day in the history of Libya. The dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted, and with this enormous promise, the Libyan people now have a great responsibility: to build an inclusive, tolerant and democratic Libya that stands as the ultimate rebuke to Gadhafi's dictatorship. We look forward to the announcement of the country's liberation, a quick formation of an interim government, and a stable transition to Libya's first free and fair election. And we call on our Libyan friends to continue to work with the international community to secure dangerous materials and to respect the rights of all Libyans, including those who've been detained.
"We are under no illusions. Libya will travel a long and winding road to full democracy. There will be difficult days ahead. But the United States, together with the international community, is committed to the Libyan people. You have won your revolution. Now we will be a partner as you forge a future that provides dignity, freedom and opportunity. For the region, today's events prove once more that the rule of an iron fist inevitably comes to an end. Across the Arab world, citizens have stood up to claim their rights. Youth are delivering a powerful rebuke to dictatorship. And those leaders who try to deny their human dignity will not succeed."
[Update 2:15 p.m. ET] U.S. President Barack Obama said Gadhafi's death "marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of Libya." The people Libya of, he said, now have the opportunity to "determine their own destiny" and form "a new and democratic Libya."
"Today we can definitively say that the Gadhafi regime has come to an end," he said.
Obama said the NATO mission in Libya - the United States has participated in NATO's enforcement over a no-fly zone over Libya since the early days of that country's uprising this year - will end soon.
"Without putting a single U.S. (service member) on the ground, we achieved our objective, and the NATO mission will soon come to an end," Obama said. Citing what he called a growing U.S. strength around the world, Obama said: "We've demonstrated what collective action can achieve in the 21st century."
[Update 1:50 p.m. ET] Arabic language TV network Al Arabiya has shown an image of what is reported to be the body of one of Gadhafi's sons, Mutassim Gadhafi. CNN has not verified the image.
A spokesman for a member of the Tripoli military council said earlier Thursday that Mutassim Gadhafi and Abdullah al-Senussi - who was Moammar Gadhafi's chief of intelligence - were killed, in addition to Moammar Gadhafi.
Mutassim Gadhafi once allegedly helped plot a coup against his father and had to flee the country when it failed. He was eventually forgiven and became his father's national security adviser. Mutassim was involved in official talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2009 about improving U.S.-Libyan relations.
[Update 1:49 p.m. ET] More from CNN's interview with Ali Aujali, the Libyan National Transitional Council's ambassador to the United States: He said Libya likely won't send the only man convicted in the 1988 PanAm Flight 103 bombing back to Scotland or other countries.
Aujali said that maybe Abdelbeset al Megrahi can help the new government understand how the bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, was carried out during the late Moammar Gadhafi's reign. But he cited al Megrahi's poor health as a factor, saying he is a "very sick man" and is "living with oxygen beside his bed."
A Scottish court convicted al Megrahi of murder in the 1988 bombing of PanAm Flight 103, which fell from the sky after the explosion, killing 259 people on the airplane and 11 people on the ground. The Scottish government granted al Megrahi a compassionate release in 2009 for medical reasons. He was said to have had only months to live when he was released two years ago, but he still is alive.
[Update 1:44 p.m. ET] Journalist Robin Wright, who has written extensively about Libya and the region, said on CNN that all of Libya's approximately 140 tribes will likely want a share of the political and economic spoils of Gadhafi's death.
[Update 1:21 p.m. ET] The Libyan National Transitional Council's ambassador to the United States, Ali Aujali, thanked President Barack Obama and the American people for their help in toppling the Moammar Gadhafi regime.
"Thank you very much America," Aujali told CNNs' Wolf Blitzer. "You took the right decision."
He said that the NTC will likely, in accordance with Muslim traditions, bury Gadhafi's body.Blitzer asked him where that body might be buried, but Aujali did not say, adding only that it would be done in a "humble" manner.
Aujali formerly served as Libya's ambassador to the United States under Gadhafi.
Blitzer asked Aujali if Libya would reimburse the United States for its operations in Libya. The United States has been part of a NATO military mission enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya since the early days of 2011's Libyan revolt against Gadhafi.
"I think this is one of the issues that can be discussed," Aujali answered.
[Update 1:10 p.m. ET] Another one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, has been killed, TV network Al Arabiya reports. CNN has not confirmed the report.
Earlier Thursday, a member of the Tripoli military council said that Gadhafi son Mutassim Gadhafi, and Moammar Gadhafi's chief of intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, were killed.
[Update 1:08 p.m. ET] Reacting to the news of Moammar Gadhafi's death, Vice President Joe Biden said that "NATO got it right" and "the people of Libya got rid of a dictator."
Speaking to an audience in Plymouth, New Hampshire, Biden said Libya has "a chance now." He told the audience that America spent $2 billion and "didn't lose a single life" helping to liberate Libya. "This is more a prescription about how we ought to deal going forward," he said.
[Update 12:57 p.m. ET] U.S. President Barack Obama will make a statement in the White House Rose Garden at 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, the White House announced.
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, said Moammar Gadhafi's death "clears the way for the Transitional National Council in Libya to begin to put together a representative government."
"A number of the people who led the Transitional National Council were educated in the United States and we are obviously hopeful that, that they will want to have a representative government and they will be an ally of the United States," said McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky.
[Update 12:53 p.m. ET] Retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark T. Kimmitt told CNN that NATO probably will review what it did right, and what it could do better, in light of Gadhafi's death.
Kimmitt, who served as assistant secretary of state in the last five months of George W. Bush's presidency, said that among some of the questions NATO should answer is how to locate shoulder-fire missiles which are reportedly aplenty in the country, as well as mines which are unaccounted for, he said.
[Update 12:37 p.m. ET] TV networks Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Rabiya are showing video of someone who appears to be Moamaar Gadhafi wounded - but still alive - and surrounded by fighters.
Video that Al Jazeera aired earlier today shows what appears to be Gadhafi's lifeless body.
Conflicting reports have been made regarding how Gadhafi died on Thursday. Libyan Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam told CNN that revolutionary fighters attacked a house where Gadhafi was hiding, and that Gadhafi was shot while trying to flee.
Guma el-Gamaty, a Libyan political activist and former London coordinator for Libya's National Transitional Council, told CNN from London that Gadhafi was conscious and was talking shortly after he was injured. El-Gamaty, citing leaders of anti-Gadhafi forces, also said that Gadhafi was injured as he resisted attempts to capture him.
Gadhafi said, "who are you, what's going on?" after he was injured, but died later, according to el-Gamaty, who cited anti-Gadhafi forces. El-Gamaty said Gadhafi died as he was being transported to a hospital in Misrata.
[Update 12:20 p.m. ET] German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the death of Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday is "important" for Libyans.
"A bloody war which Gadhafi waged against his own people now comes to a close. The way is finally clear for a new and peaceful political beginning," she said.
[Update 12:17 p.m. ET] French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office called Moammar Gadhafi's "disappearance" Thursday a "major step" in the struggle by Libyans to "free themselves from dictatorship and violence."
[Update 11:50 a.m. ET] David Gergen, a CNN senior political analyst and an adviser to four U.S. presidents, reacted to Gadhafi's death: "Thank goodness. The world is rid of a tyrant," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
Gadhafi's death "does promise something new" for Libya, and the Libyans "deserve" this news, Gergen said. However, Gergen cautioned that the death doesn't bring stability to Libya or the region.
[Update 11:46 a.m. ET] Moammar Gadhafi "was not killed in an airstrike," interim Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said Thursday in Tripoli.
Conflicting reports have been made regarding how and where Gadhafi died. Libyan Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam told CNN that revolutionary fighters attacked a house where Gadhafi was hiding, and that Gadhafi was shot while trying to flee.
NATO has said that its aircraft struck two pro-Gadhafi military vehicles in the vicinity of Sirte. It's unclear whether that had any role in Gadhafi's death.
[Update 11:45 a.m. ET] U.S. Sen. John McCain said of reports of Gadhafi's death: "I think it's a great day."
The United States has been part of a NATO military mission enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya since the early days of 2011's Libyan revolt against Gadhafi. McCain said that when he and other lawmakers visited Tripoli to speak with anti-Gadhafi officials after Gadhafi's overthrow, those officials said that they would seriously consider reimbursing the United States for its efforts. The amount that the Libyans said they would try to give back to the United States is approximately $1 billion, McCain told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
U.S. Defense Department costs for operations in Libya stand at about $1.1 billion as of September 30, according to Pentagon spokesman George Little. That includes daily military operations, munitions, the drawdown of supplies and humanitarian assistance.
McCain said that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama "deserves credit" for how the crisis in Libya has been handled.
[Update 11:35 a.m. ET] U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Gadhafi's death "marks a historic transition for Libya."
"In the coming days, we will witness scenes of celebration, as well as grief for those who lost so much. Yet let us recognize, immediately, that this is only the end of the beginning," Ban said, referring in part to the work that Libya's anti-Gadhafi movement still has to do to transition from Gadhafi's regime. "The road ahead for Libya and its people will be difficult and full of challenges.".
[Update 11:27 a.m. ET] Streets in Libya's capital, Tripoli, are jammed with people who are celebrating, CNN's Dan Rivers reports from the city. Gunfire - presumably celebratory - can be heard. Video from Tripoli shows many people waving the flag that Libya's National Transitional Council adopted after Gadhafi's ouster.
[Update 11:21 a.m. ET] A pro-Moammar Gadhafi channel, Al-Rai, is now reporting the death of the former Libyan leader, citing NATO sources.
[Update 11:02 a.m. ET] The Libyan ambassador to the United Kingdom confirmed Moammar Gadhafi's death Thursday and said his body is in the Libyan city of Misrata.
News of the ambassador's comments comes minutes after the interim Libyan prime minister announced Gadhafi's death.
[Update 10:59 a.m. ET] The son of a long-missing anti-Gadhafi activist says that reports of Gadhafi's death are overwhelming to him.
"I can't explain," Ahmed Almegaryaf said. "[It is] something I've been wanting to hear all my life. Hopefully it really was him that was captured."
Almegaryaf is the son of Izzat Almegaryaf, who the son says was captured by Egyptian security services in 1990 and handed over to the Libyans. He said he has not heard from his father since.
Almegaryaf said he that even if his father is dead, Izzat Almegaryaf will be "smiling down" on Libya if Gadhafi is gone. Read more about Almegaryaf.
[Update 10:54 a.m. ET] NATO's top military official, Supreme Allied Commander Adm. James Stavridis, will call for a special session to address ending the NATO mission in Libya, a senior NATO official says, according to CNN's Barbara Starr.
"It will be very soon, perhaps next day or two. (Stavridis) will give a recommendation and a special session of the NAC will be convened," the official said.
Stavridis is now looking at "key pieces of intelligence" to make that recommendation, according to the official. That will include assessing whether anti-Gadhafi forces control Sirte, and whether Gadhafi loyalists can mount any significant counter-strike.
[Update 10:39 a.m. ET] Gadhafi's son, Mutassim, and his chief of intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, have been killed, according to Anees al-Sharif, spokesman for AbdelHakim Belhajj of the Tripoli military council.
This report comes on the day that the interim Libyan prime minister says that Moammar Gadhafi was killed.
[Update 10:36 a.m. ET] Former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been killed, interim Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril told reporters in Tripoli Thursday.
[Update 10:32 a.m. ET] Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign policy chief, said if the reports of Gadhafi's death are confirmed, his demise "brings closure to a tragic period in the lives of so many Libyans."
She also said that the fall of Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte "marks the end of the Gadhafi era."
"Libya is now under the full control of National Transitional Council forces," she said.
[Update 10:22 a.m. ET] Guma el-Gamaty, a Libyan political activist and former London coordinator for Libya's National Transitional Council, told CNN from London that leaders of anti-Gadhafi forces told him that Gadhafi was conscious and was talking shortly after he was injured.
Gadhafi said, "who are you, what's going on?" but died later, according to el-Gamaty, who cited anti-Gadhafi forces. He said Gadhafi was injured as he resisted attempts to capture him.
[Update 10:14 a.m. ET] CNN's Ben Wedeman, who has covered the uprising in Libya for months, said one of the biggest risks for Libya moving forward is a strong impulse among revolutionary fighters and political leaders to commit revenge killings in an attempt to get rid of leftover elements of Gadhafi's regime. Rioting and looting, thanks to overall instability, could follow, Wedeman said.
Former Gadhafi aide Abubaker Saad, now a professor of Middle Eastern history at Western Connecticut State University, told CNN that he is more optimistic about how Gadhafi's alleged death would affect Libya. He said on CNN that Libya's National Transitional Council is "really thirsty" to enact democratic reforms in the country.Saad said positive change will happen, but he added that it would be "foolish" to expect "smooth sailing" in a country which has been ruled for more than four decades by a dictator.
[Update 10:07 a.m. ET] Cell phone video aired by Arabic language TV network Al Jazeera appears to show Gadhafi's bloody body.
[Update 10 a.m. ET] CNN's Phil Black, reporting from the British prime minister's residence in London, says that the British government is making no comment about reports of Gadhafi's death, and that it's unlikely they would do so before Washington.
Black noted that there have been "enthusiastic" reports of other Libyan leaders' deaths and capture since the fall of Tripoli that have turned out to be false.
[Update 9:56 a.m. ET] A State Department official familiar with the latest information coming out of Libya said it "looks like he's been killed," but the department is still awaiting official confirmation. The official would only speak if his name not be used.
[Update 9:48 a.m. ET] Abubaker Saad, a former Gadfahi aide who is now a professor of Middle Eastern history and culture at Western Connecticut State University, said he believed the loyalty that certain Libyan tribes showed to Gadhafi will not transfer to his sons. "None of (Gadhfai's sons) can muster the loyalty of the tribal groups ... that their father had."
[Update 9:29 a.m. ET] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can't confirm reports of Moammar Gadhafi's capture or death. But she said on Thursday either development would "add legitimacy and relief to the formation of a new government" in Libya.
A former member of the Libyan National Transitional Council, Guma El-Gamaty, told CNN from London that Gadhafi is dead. "This is the end of the tyrant," he said.
[Update 9:21 a.m. ET] Rebels said Moammar Gadhafi was killed when fighters attacked the house where he was Thursday, National Transitional Council Information Minister Mahmoud Shamman told CNN. "He tried to flee and they killed him. When they met him, he was alive and he was killed in action," Shamman said. Shamman said the NTC's chairman or prime minister will officially confirm the death.
Abubaker Saad, who worked for Gadhafi for nine years, spoke to CNN via Skype. He viewed a photo that news agency AFP says is Gadhafi bloodied and captured. Saad said he is "90 percent" sure that the man in the photo is Gadhafi. Saad said he is "thrilled" at the news and that it was crucial to have Gadhafi captured or killed - either one - because as long as he was alive or free, he could possibly rally supporters and maintain some level of power. Saad is a professor in the history department at Western Connecticut State University. He teaches Middle East history and cultures.
[Update 9:04 a.m. ET] Most Western governments declined to comment on the reports Thursday, with the U.S. State Department saying it could not confirm the media reports were correct. One exception was Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, whose country took part in the NATO-led air operation in Libya, who said Gadhafi was in custody. "My assistant has just told me that Gadhafi really has been captured," Rutte said during a visit to Moscow. "I am glad that he has been captured." Listen to why Washington is hesitating to confirm reports. If reports are true, it is positive news for U.S. national security, CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
[Update 8:56 a.m. ET] Mahmoud Shamman, National Transitional Council Information Minister, tells CNN that a press conference will be happening soon about the alleged death of Gadhafi. Shamman said Gadhafi is dead and that is "a great victory" for the Libyan people. CNN's Dan Rivers spoke to him in Tripoli where crowds are cheering, shooting guns in a celebratory way and honking their horns.
Rebels said Gadhafi was killed when fighters attacked the house where he was Thursday, Shamman told CNN. "He tried to flee and they killed him. When they met him, he was alive and he was killed in action," Shamman said. Shamman said the NTC's chairman or prime minister will officially confirm the death.
CNN's Ben Wedeman, who covers the region and has covered Libya extensively, said that much caution should be used with these reports, because false information has come out previously. It is being reported that Gadhafi was found in a storm drain. "It's a bit of surprise because we knew that he had escaped from Tripoli" with a lot of cash and weapons, Wedeman said. It would seem odd that Gadhafi would end up in a manhole-type of area, Wedeman said live on CNN.
[Update 8:47 a.m. ET] A cell phone photo, seen above, distributed by the Agence France-Presse shows the apparent arrest of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. In the photo, a man identified as Gadhafi appears wounded and bloodied.
[Update 8:39 a.m. ET] AbdelHakim Bilhajj, head of the National Transitional Council military arm in Tripoli, announced live on Al-Jazeera Arabic Thursday that Gadhafi is dead.
Al-Ahrar, a National Transitional Council TV station, reports that Gadhafi is dead. The station didn't cite a source and the news couldn't be independently confirmed.
The White House has not confirmed the report of Gadhafi's death or capture, a senior administration official said Thursday.
NATO said its aircraft struck two pro-Gadhafi military vehicles in the Sirte vicinity Thursday."These armed vehicles were conducting military operations and presented a clear threat to civilians," Col. Roland Lavoie said.
Earlier Thursday morning CNN reported that revolutionary fighters said they had captured Gadhafi. That was reported on Libyan television on Thursday. The report cited the Misrata Military Council. That report could not be independently confirmed by CNN. Around that time, the National Transitional Council military spokesman told CNN that reports of Gadhafi's capture are only rumors. Abdurahman Bousin added at that time that it was doubtful that Gadhafi was even in or around his hometown of Sirte.
Meanwhile fighters loyal to the NTC took control of Sirte Thursday, the council said. CNN's Dan Rivers is in Tripoli where massive crowds are cheering and honking their car horns. Many are shooting into the air in celebration.
[Update 8:07 a.m. ET] The State Department can't confirm reports about the capture or killing of Gadhafi, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
[Update 7:32 a.m. ET] A "big fish" has been captured in Libya, but a spokesman for the new rulers couldn't say for sure whether it was Gadhafi.
Arabian summer is nothing but creation of another block of copuntries where extremists and terrorists rule, Christians will be persecyted nad killed.. Is it Arabian summer, new democracy.. etc..The effect of these wars in the middleeast to asia will start to develop in the next few yeras.
MUAHAHAHAHA! MMMMUUUAHHHHAHAHAHA! I love how mad all the Righties are about this! Seriously? Why are you Republicans upset about this and blaming Obama? So what if he does well in his foreign policy/counterterrorism initiatives? Can't you just applaud the guy when he does things that will positively impact the lives of millions?
Mitch Mcconnell lost sleep again...
No they cannot because they are poll following, close minded sheep and would say or do anything to make sure that Obama is painted as the worst president in the history of the USA.
Isnt it hilarious to watch them get all bent out of shape over this. Ask them about Iraq and they have nohing to say but this Libya thing is oh so terrible. They are a joke. All that Bush claimed was happening in Iraq was lies and the right supported him with out question. All of what Bush claimed was happening in Iraq was in fact happening in Libya and they cry when President Obama goes about it a much better way and gets much better results. They are pathetic.
is this pic real? is this really gadaffi in cold blood? pls confirm.. http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=537455 (the pic is in the bottom of the page)... IS THIS REAL?
Ummmm...this isn't a live blog.
its good for the people of libya, but i think it would have been far more interesting to see what would of happened to him if taken alive.
Let this be a lesson to Hugo Chavez. People want freedom. They will not tolerate dictatorship. You will be next Hugo. People will realize what a jerk you really are!
Thank you! I hope that is true, and the rest of the world sees what Hugo Chavez is doing and has done to Venezuela and all of its people.
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Yeah right. He has his own personal plastic surgeon. He probably got the guy to take his face off and switch it out with some unsuspecting victim. I guarantee you he's walking among the people right now.
Thank God for the people of Libya! I hope this is a big step for the beginning of peace in their country and the end of the violence they've been living in all these years, especially these past months.
And I, as a venezuelan, sincerely hope, that Hugo Chavez is next. He is (in a more passive-agressive way) so much like Gadafi and so is his regime, and I hope someone stops him before Venezuela becomes anothe Libya,
Well now we know that he is dead because they showed a photo of his dead body!.
Had they not shown a picture of his dead body, I would not believe it and I dont think anyone would be crazy enough to believe anything like that.
Go CNN! You're the best! Always showing the evidence and the truth! 😀
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CNN's Anderson Cooper questions DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz about various platform issues.
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I like checking in with Anderson but I admit this was a tad bit unexpected. Fiscally, I err more on the side of the right. Socially I definitely err on the side of the left. In the 90s, I was Clinton supporter. Honestly, I didn't really expect Cooper to do this but actually, I'm glad he did and if some Republican were to come on to his show expecting a free pass, I hope Anderson throws him down just as he did DWS. This has NOTHING to do with the Cat and Dog fight we have in Dems VS Repubs. This is just bad behavior and Anderson busted her. This kind of thing, is just not helpful. At the end of the day Dems and Repubs have to DO THEIR JOB instead of this entrenched all or NOTHING idea of mud flinging. Do we expect an all Democrat congress and no republicans or a Senate like that? That's just not going to happen. What's the end game for a person like DWS? Drive the Republicans out of business? Her talk is junk and honestly if someone like Allen West got up on Anderson's show misquoting press to support his political claim and slamming Dems as I have seen him do republican network ahem; I would want to Anderson to put him in check quick. To me, this country needs to start coming back together. You can't do that when all you want to do is fight because your perception is that you will lose your job. Keep all of them honest Anderson.
Romney will say anything that he thinks his audience wants to hear to try and get elected. Therefore Ms Wasserman is right to point out that he dosen't walk the walk in anything he says. I hope CNN man's up and calls out the Republicans on their b.s.! I have heard Romney tell Huckabee that he supports the Republican platform 100% and that he would overturn Roe vs. Wade if he was elected.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been twisting facts for the past 7 years. Now that she was put into a position of power based on her support of the administration what would make anyone think that would change.
I have to challenge Perry's statement that all Americans want is truthful adult deliberation. Why would we have all these sensationalist shows and books if there were no market for such things? The sad truth is that we Americans want outrage. We want to feel we are winning against the "evil" other side. We want our values to prevail over someone else's values. And we vote with our emotions, not our minds. What is the solution? I don't know. I guess I would suggest we train our young people in logic and train them to keep their emotions under the control of their intellect, but that can only go so far. They also need a value structure by which to make choices, and we know that they will rebel. So perhaps there is no good answer.
Well done AC, truth does matter. Wasserman Shultz's has twisted the truth and will continue to do so. Keep the press on to ensure truthful reporting.
Dear politicians, all American's want is truthful adult deliberation on topics of national importance. AC held his ground with aplomb. And for the love of all that is American, GET ON TO TOPICS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE! Issues that are important but not critical to our nation's sovereignty need to be tabled to a more appropriate forum, NOT a national election.
Authentic Journalism! So refreshing!
Thank you Anderson Cooper, for your courage to confront the lies & expose Debbie Wasserman Shultz's and the DNC's deceptive tactics.
Perhaps this will encourage other fair minded reporters to stand for truth, against the current of liberal bias in media.
More than anything, you revealed that Wasserman was an absolute expert as a liar, twisting the facts and doing whatever necessary to smear and slander, willing to compromise at any cost.
If you look at previously taped Romney speeches, you will see at first he is on the dnc side when it comes to rape, but every since he added Ryan to the ticket he has been so flip flopish that no-ones knows what he wants. He said he will do one thing and a hour later he says he will follow what Ryan says, flip flopping. this DNC Chairman just does not know how to debate facts.
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Teheux: Could a bagel send you to prison?
I'm re-thinking my poppy seed bagel habit.
I'm also concerned about the gin and tonics I like to drink on my deck during hot weather.
I am also considering throwing out the tube of hemp-seed hand lotion, no matter how great a job it does on my dry skin.
You see, I don't want to go to prison for any of these things.
If you don't use any illegal drugs you'd think you wouldn't need to worry about any of this, but maybe you do.
We all know that if we are involved in a fatal collision they'll do a tox screen, and if you test positive, you can go to prison. Several recent court cases have reminded us all that even if you smoked pot several days ago and are clearly not impaired, just the presence of the metabolites in your body is enough for you to be charged.
Since I don't use marijuana or any other illegal drug, I wasn't concerned for myself. But then, a co-worker mused, what about baked goods containing poppy seeds? Poppy seeds in bagels, muffins and cakes are a harmless delight, but can give a false positive on drug tests. Did you shoot up heroin or did you eat a piece of poppy-seed cake? There's no way to prove your only bad habit is eating too many bagels.
The quinine in tonic water also can cause you to test positive for heroin use.
And eating super-food hemp seeds? Please. Forget their nutritional advantages. Somebody might think you smoked pot if you eat this food, so just don't.
Poppy seed cake is one of my staple specialties for company. It's moist, rich and delicious. But imagine the consequences of enjoying a hefty slice of cake and then being involved in an accident. Even worse, what if I served you a gin and tonic after dinner? Even assuming the gin has all left your system, good luck explaining yourself in court as the quinine lingers.
The truth about the dangers of using hemp-seed toiletries is contested, with some sources saying that such products could never cause a false positive, and others saying it can happen. Best not to take a chance.
The chances of being involved in a fatal accident are pretty slim, but what about people applying for a job? Or what about people who are required to take drug tests to keep their jobs?
I have never been asked to take a drug test by any employer, and in general I'm philosophically opposed to the practice. If someone is really under the influence, you can tell. There is no need to resort to asking your people to pee in a cup.
Certain businesses tout the fact that they test their employees for drugs, thinking they are making a good impression on customers, but that strategy can backfire. It certainly doesn't give me a good feeling about any business that advertises it feels it necessary to impose such a test on its employees. Are the employees empowered to insist their CEO provide a clean urine test upon command? No? Why not?
It's not true that only people who use drugs can fail drug tests. It's also not true that only drug users object to being made to take drug tests.
The possibility of people losing their jobs or their freedom based on imperfect drug testing just makes me mad. The fact that to avoid even the remote possibility of one of these things happening means giving up perfectly safe and normal things to eat and drink also upsets me.
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NEW YORK — Eli Wallach, the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career and earned film immortality as a conniving, quick-on-the-draw bandit in the classic Western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," has died. He was 98.
The actor's son, Peter Wallach, confirmed Wednesday that his father passed away Tuesday evening in New York from natural causes.
"The best way to honour him is to put on one of his movies," he said. "Put on 'Baby Doll' or 'Magnificent Seven.' Those live forever."
Wallach and his wife, Anne Jackson, were a formidable duo on the stage, appearing in several plays dating back to the 1940s. He won a Tony Award for his supporting role in Tennessee Williams' "The Rose Tattoo" in 1951, was an original member of the Actors Studio, and was still starring in films well into his 90s.
"He was as wonderful a person as he was an actor," said Robert De Niro. "He will be missed."
Wallach may be best remembered for his role as Tuco in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." In the Sergio Leone spaghetti Western, Clint Eastwood (The Good), Lee Van Cleef (The Bad) and Wallach (The Ugly) attempt to outwit and out shoot each other in pursuit of a trove of gold coins buried in a Civil War cemetery.
Wallach played a menacing, yet lovable, outlaw who had committed every crime in the book: "murder, armed robbery … inciting prostitution, kidnapping, extortion … rape" as the executioner intoned in one famous scene before Tuco escaped a hanging.
The movie — with a haunting score by Ennio Morricone — was the third film in a trilogy that included "Fistful of Dollars" and "For a Few Dollars More," and influenced a generation of filmmakers. Wallach's character had several memorable lines, including, "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk," after being confronted by a rival gunslinger.
"Everywhere I go, someone will recognize me from 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' and start whistling the theme song," he said in a 2003 interview. "I can feel when it's going to happen. I smile and wave, and they wave back."
Wallach, an eager storyteller, even titled his 2005 memoir "The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage."
Wallach also starred in the steamy "Baby Doll" (1956), "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), "The Misfits" (1961), an Arthur Miller-written film that starred Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, "Lord Jim" (1964) with Peter O'Toole and "The Godfather III" (1990), in which he played a murderous mobster who dies after eating poisoned cannoli.
He and Jackson starred in a series of plays, including George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara" in 1956 and a hugely successful run of "Luv" in the mid-1960s. A critic once hailed them as "the proletarian Lunts," a reference to Alfred Lunt and his wife, Lynn Fontanne, who at the time were the most famous couple in the American theatre.
"Although I limp in life as a result of my two hip operations, whenever I go onstage with Anne, the lights give my body a lift and I prance onto the stage and dance off," Wallach said in his 2006 memoir. "I feel I can play a 16-year-old if the author calls for that. Which is why I prefer live acting to film — I come alive with the lights."
Wallach was born in Brooklyn on Dec. 7, 1915, the son of an immigrant candy store owner. He dabbled in dramatics in high school, while becoming a table-tennis champion.
His brother and two sisters had become teachers, and other family members were doctors and lawyers. Wallach, who had appeared in plays as far back as grade school, elected to study acting.
Acting definitely did not run in his family, Wallach once said, "Being an actor to them is like joining the Foreign Legion."
His drama training was interrupted by World War II service in the Army medical corps, in which he earned the rank of captain. From 1945 to 1948, he appeared in several Broadway plays but had to work as a swimming instructor and camp counsellor to make ends meet.
His stage career eventually took off, thanks in large part to his success in Tennessee Williams productions. He appeared in "The Rose Tattoo," then "Camino Real" and later had a long run in "Teahouse of the August Moon."
His debut film, directed by Elia Kazan, was "Baby Doll," based on the Williams' play. It was condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency for what was termed its "carnal suggestiveness."
He became a charter member of the Actors Studio, along with up-and-coming performers such as Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Jackson. He was one of the nation's early students of Method acting, where actors draw upon their own memories and emotions to replicate the emotional conditions under which the character operates.
After "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," his relationship with Leone soured. Leone had promised him a role in the Western "Duck, You Sucker," but the studio wanted Rod Steiger. Wallach had already cancelled another project to take on the role in "Duck, You Sucker," and was angered by losing the part.
Wallach did not slow down in his later years. He played a store owner in 2003's "Mystic River," directed by Eastwood, and had a part in the romantic comedy "The Holiday" in 2006. In 2010, he was featured as an old financial hand in Oliver Stone's "Money Never Sleeps," the sequel to "Wall Street."
Wallach met Jackson while they were appearing off-Broadway in Williams' "This Property Is Condemned." They married in 1948 and had three children, Peter, who became a film animator, and two daughters, Roberta and Katherine, both of whom followed their parents into acting.
Wallach's nephew is New York Times film critic A.O. Scott. The actor once said: "Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."
Though he never won an Oscar, Wallach was awarded an honorary Academy Award in 2010, hailing him as "the quintessential chameleon." Eastwood presented the award, calling him "a great performer and a great friend."
"I've played more bandits, thieves, killers, war lords, molesters and Mafiosi that you could shake a stick at," said Wallach. "As a civilian, I collect antique clocks, tell endless stories of my days as a medic in World War II, watch every tennis match, live for my family, daily mail, run the dishwasher, take pictures of faces in the bark of trees."
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Which Comes First, Lighting or Heating?
How much energy and money do homeowners save - or lose - by replacing incandescent lights with CFLs?
July 01, 2009
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For heating, the amount of energy saved depends upon the relative heating efficiency of the incandescent lamp versus that of the heating system, and the fraction of lighting energy that is used during the heating season. For cooling, the amount of energy saved depends on the efficiency of the air conditioning system, and the fraction of lighting energy used during the cooling season. The same arguments also apply to appliances that give off heat.
|The electricity to power lightbulbs all ends up as heat eventually, but not all of it necessarily ends up inside conditioned space.
Parekh's article was based on a narrow range of experimental conditions. It is important to determine the full range of conditions under which efficiency improvements, such as CFLs, actually do save energy and money. It is also important to determine what needs to be done when they do not save energy or money. In the following discussion, we show that the efficiency of the thermal system, as determined by the efficiency of the heating and cooling appliances, and the integrity of the building shell, are as important as climate in determining how much whole-house energy CFLs save. CFLs always save energy if the thermal system in the house is efficient enough. The question is not whether CFLs (or other efficient lamps or appliances) should be installed, but when they should be installed. In cold climates, it is heating improvements first, and then everything else.
For any individual house design, site, use pattern, and climate, one needs to use a building energy program to estimate the effect of replacing incandescent lamps with CFLs. However, it is possible to get a reasonable estimate for a mix of conditions as a function of climate by using a simple heating degree-day calculation. Degree-days are calculated by dividing days into heating or cooling groups based on whether their average temperature is less than (heating) or more than (cooling) a base temperature. To get heating degree-days, calculate the base temperature minus the average temperature for all heating days, and sum them. The calculation for cooling degree-days is analogous.
A sample of cities covering a range of climates in Canada and the United States shows—no surprise—that Canadian cities are on average much colder and require much more heat than U.S. cities (see Tables 1 and 2). However, it is the length of the heating season—far more than its severity—that determines how much waste heat from an incandescent light, or any other light or appliance, takes up some of the heating load.
The degree-day methodology was developed at a time when houses were not generally insulated, and the 65°F base temperature is the outside temperature below which people in uninsulated houses on average began to heat, and above which they began to cool. The 65°F outside temperature is below the inside temperatures (68°F–78°F) that most people consider comfortable, because internal heat loads, such as lamps, and solar gain, raise the inside temperature above the outside temperature. Adding insulation to a house is not expected to change the base temperature for cooling, because the occupant can simply open a window and let the heat out if it is cooler outside than in. Conversely, calculations indicate that insulation can lower the appropriate heating base temperature to 55°F or less, as opening the window doesn't help when it is too cold.
Lighting is used more heavily during the dark winter months than during the light summer months. We used a seasonal load profile to estimate the percentage of annual lighting energy use that occurs during the heating season (see Tables 1 and 2).
Cities in Canada generally have much longer heating seasons, and a much higher potential for using waste heat, than cities in the United States, although even in the United States, the potential for using waste heat is substantial in the case of uninsulated houses. This holds true especially for uninsulated houses in the West Coast cities (Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco), because these cities have much longer heating seasons than might be expected from the severity of their climates as measured in degree days. (San Francisco has the third longest heating season of all the cities listed.) However, this effect disappears for insulated houses. Tables 1 and 2 also show that insulation can have a major effect on the length of the heating season, and thus the potential usefulness of waste heat. This is particularly true in milder climates.
The nominal length of the cooling season is 365 minus the length of heating season calculated with the 65°F base. For the Canadian cities, we calculated that the percentage of waste heat that could contribute to cooling load was 13% or less. However, in Canada the added energy benefit from a CFL or an efficient appliance is likely to be less than 13%. Cooling load depends as much upon solar exposure as it does upon temperature. In relatively cool climates, houses that are properly shaded may not even have air conditioning. This is often the case in many Canadian cities.
The usefulness of the waste heat from a lamp depends upon both the fraction of heat available during the heating season, and the relative heating efficiencies of the electric lights versus the heating system. The electricity to power lightbulbs all ends up as heat eventually, but not all of it necessarily ends up inside conditioned space. The worst case is in older homes when lights are installed in an unsealed recessed fixture that protrudes into an unconditioned attic. The heated fixture can act as a chimney that sucks warm air out of the space, so that the effective heating efficiency of the lightbulb is extremely low, or possibly even negative. In the more usual case, the fixture is sealed, or entirely within the conditioned space. In this situation, the only energy that cannot be used for heat is the energy in the light that escapes through the windows. A window area of 10% of the floor area translates to a window fraction of about 3% of total surface area for a typical house. This gives a minimum utilization efficiency of about 97% during the heating season. If there are curtains, the utilization factor will be a bit higher.
The product of the utilization efficiency and heating season use factors described above gives a seasonal utilization factor of 87%–99% for uninsulated homes in Canada, and 72%–88% for insulated homes. This is an end use efficiency. It can be directly compared to electric-heat efficiencies, but not to fuel-based ones. The burning of fossil fuels generates most of the electricity in North America. Furthermore, in North America, most electric grids are connected. Grid connectivity means that even if a resident gets hydro, nuclear, or even solar-based power, a reduction in that resident's use of these forms of power means that this power is available to offset fuel-based power elsewhere.
There are four efficiency categories for electric heating, three for fuel-based heating, and two for cooling. The four efficiency categories for electric heating are (1) electric furnace with leaky ducts – 70%; (2) baseboard heaters or electric furnace with sealed ducts – 100%; (3) old low-efficiency heat pump, heating seasonal performance factor (HSPF) – 5); and (4) new high-efficiency Energy Star heat pump, HSPF – 9. For fuel-based heating, the three efficiency categories are (1) old furnace with leaky ducts – 49%; (2) old furnace with sealed ducts, or new furnace with somewhat leaky ducts – 70%; and (3) new furnace with sealed ducts – 90%. Finally, for cooling the two efficiency categories are (1) old low-efficiency air conditioner, SEER – 8; and (2) new, high-efficiency air conditioner, SEER – 16. Table 3 shows the expected energy savings or losses to be realized by switching to CFLs under each of the seven heating efficiency categories and the two air conditioning efficiency categories, with and without insulation.
As you can see from Table 3, there are cases, especially in Canada, where switching to the more-efficient CFLs actually increases energy use. However, energy use only increases when the house is heated with an electric furnace that has leaky ducts (low efficiency). The message here is that CFLs increase energy use only when the heating system needs replacement or repair. It is not just climate that matters. Even for the most severe case in Canada, baseboard heating in an insulated house will allow for 15%–16% of the nominal savings from the CFL, while switching to an efficient heat pump will save almost 50%, and using an efficient fuel-based heating system can save up to 70% (100% is the nominal savings when you ignore heating or cooling effects).
In Canada, the CFL savings in an insulated, energy-efficient house averages from 60% to 77% of nominal savings. In the United States, the average ranges from 81% to 98%. Yes, the effects of heating offset can be very significant, but they are not so significant that they eliminate the possibility of savings. The fact that some of the savings from CFLs is offset during the heating season is not an excuse to avoid using CFLs. It does, however, indicate that the first order of business in heating climates is to upgrade the heating system and insulate the structure as much as possible.
Differenciating Costs
Table 3 addresses only energy. It does not address cost. Parekh's article gives several examples of ways in which the cost of heating and cooling affects the cost savings realized by switching to CFLs. All of Parekh's examples show at least some cost savings. The issue here is differences in the cost of energy.
To get a better handle on this issue, we present the following example. A 60W incandescent lamp with an expected life of 1,000 hours and a first cost of 50¢ per lamp is replaced by a 15W CFL with an expected life of 4,000 hours (50% of the nominal life) and a cost of $5. Over the life of the CFL, there is a nominal savings of 180 kWh, at an added capital cost of $3. If heating and cooling effects are ignored, the lamp just pays for itself if electricity costs 1.67¢/kWh. The purchaser makes a 100% profit ($4.50 + $3.00) if electricity costs 4.17¢/kWh. Electricity costs vary widely, due to differences in the cost of production, and to differences in rate schedules that take account of social, environmental, and planning issues. For example, in 2008, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), a large utility in California, charged low-income customers as little as 5¢/kWh, while regular customers were charged from 11.6¢/kWh for the lowest usage to 41¢/kWh for the highest usage.
Figure 1 shows the energy saving percentage (the values listed in Table 3) for the 15W CFL, for breakeven and for 100% profit, as a function of the electricity cost for an electrically heated home. The curves cross the 100% line at 1.67¢/kWh and 4.7¢/kWh, and decline as increasing price gives the same return, even when only some energy is saved. For an uninsulated house in Vancouver (the minimum case in Table 3 for this situation), with baseboard electric heat, the break-even point is 40¢/kWh. The first priority in such a structure is to improve the insulation or the heating system. For the worst-case insulated house (St. John's), with baseboard electric heat, the break-even point is 11¢/kWh (Vancouver is only 6¢/kWh). Going one more step and converting to a high-efficiency heat pump lowers the break-even point down to 4¢/kWh, and the 100% profit point down to 9¢/kWh. (In Vancouver, these figures are all the way down to 2¢ and 6¢ respectively).
Adding air conditioning adds an extra dimension to an already complex graph, so we will simply note that the electricity prices to give breakeven or profit are lower with air conditioning than without.
The highest fuel costs are high enough that in the worst-case Canadian scenario, the break-even cost for an insulated house with a high-efficiency furnace is 11¢/kWh, while the break-even cost for an uninsulated house with a low-efficiency heating system is about 20¢/kWh. Clearly, if fuel costs are high enough, especially relative to electricity costs, switching to CFLs may not always be cost-effective.
If absolute fuel costs are high, even higher levels of insulation than were assumed here become cost-effective, which again shifts the cost balance. Note too that even with these extreme costs, the break-even cost for the average Canadian climate with an insulated house and a high-efficiency furnace is down to 9.5¢/kWh, and the 100% profit cost is only 12¢/kWh. In the United States, the extreme case (Minneapolis) is no worse than the average Canadian city, while in the average case, the 100% profit cost is only 9¢/kWh. More common fuel costs dramatically improve the economics of CFL conversion. The worst-case uninsulated house has a break-even cost of 11.5¢/kWh, while the insulated house with a high-efficiency furnace has a break-even cost of less than 6.5¢/kWh.
What can we learn from all these calculations? If there is any question as to whether a CFL conversion will save energy, it means that either the heating system needs to be repaired or replaced, or the insulation needs to be upgraded, or both. Once these things are done, the CFL conversion will save energy. If the climate is so mild that heating and insulation upgrades are not cost-effective, a CFL conversion will almost certainly save energy even without them. Much the same thing holds true if there is any question as to whether the conversion will save money. If fuel prices rose much higher than electricity prices, especially in a very cold climate like that of St. John's, the conversion might not save money; but this situation would probably not last long, because electricity and fuel process tend to rise and fall together.
There is also the question of frequency of use. If you use a lamp so seldom that you expect it to last your lifetime, it might make more economic sense to put your money in the bank—even at today's low interest rates. In general, however, it makes good economic sense to replace any commonly used incandescent with a CFL, even in Canada, once the appropriate heating and insulation upgrades have been made.
Robert Clear studies energy and lighting and Francis Rubinstein does research in lighting systems in the Environmental Energy Technology Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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To learn more about the effect of climate on heat pump performance, see Fairey, Philip, et al. Climate Impacts on Heating Seasonal Performance Factor (HSPF) and Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER) for Air Source Heat Pumps. Cocoa, Florida: Florida Solar Energy Center, 2007. To download this report, go to www.fsec.ucf.edu/en/publications/html/FSEC-PF-413-04/.
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Baloch Rind of Pakistan
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Anointed: Preaching
It's not enough to be skilled with words or know the Bible. It takes the anointing of the Holy Spirit to press the truths of God into men's hearts.
Ask God to take the words of the preacher and make them real as only He can. When God speaks, things are created, hearts are changed.
1Cor. 2:4 (NIV) My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.
Lord, You have the name that is above all names. You are Lord forever and there is no one who can challenge Your authority and power. You rule forever and ever, and there is no end to Your Kingdom.
Lord, I ask that You would anoint
Baloch Rind of Pakistan
as they preach and teach. Bring forth a demonstration of Your power to those who hear. Challenge the spirits of that region with Your presence, Lord. You are the Lord of all the earth. Let Your name be exalted over every spirit of darkness within the hearing of
Baloch Rind of Pakistan
's preaching. Manifest Your presence Lord, and magnify the name of Your son Jesus.
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